European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday september 19, 1977 no time to write off downtown Atlanta a the downtown areas of american cities generate More jobs contribute More Revenue in Sale Sand property taxes and Are the most important contributors to the financial health of communities throughout the nation according to a study release saturday. The study by the International Down town executives association prepared for the . Department of housing a Durban development concluded that the Central business District is the most important area within the City and nor Mally within the metropolitan  the downtown area of a typical City is the largest single concentration of any kind within the City and is the major transportation Hub and focal Point of the metropolitan area Accord ing to the study presented at a meeting of the association. The study showed that the downtown area also is the largest single contributor to the cultural and recreational life of the Community and provides the largest concentration of retail activities in the metropolitan area normally More than twice that of its nearest competitor. Central business districts vary in terms of size and relative health but there Are two Basic trends in land use and development which Are relevant to most cities according to the study. In the area of land use the study said residential use of downtown prop erty is weak and unlikely to change significantly in the next few years. It said office use is the strongest single Market in most downtown areas. Many cities Are overbuilt but the Market is fundamentally healthy and growing the study said. There is a resurgence of hotel and Motel develop ment although retail use is declining it  study said several commonly held notions about cities did not prove out. It said there Are no significant regional differences in effective downtown plan Ning and development. There was no significant differ ence in metropolitan area size As it re lates to the health of the downtown area. There is no relationship Between the growth rate of a City or metropolitan area and the Success of its Central business District. There is no significant correlation Between substantive concentrations of minorities and Low income household Sand the Lack of viability in Central Busi Ness districts. The study recommended that a system to Monitor development of Cen trial business districts be established because it said their investments jobs and revenues Are great enough and Complex enough to Merit systematic at  cities studied by the association were Allentown a. Baltimore Bur Lington it. Charlotte . Chicago Cincinnati Clayton to. Clearwater Fla. Dallas Tex. Evanston 111. Kalamazoo Mich. Knoxville Tenn. Lin Coln neb. Minneapolis new Orleans Oak Park 111. Pittsburgh Portland Maine Roanoke a. St. Louis Santa Monica Calif. Seattle Spokane Wash. Tulsa okla., and Wichita Kan. Ita sweeping through the mountains three Swiss Chimney sweepers become Mountain climbers when necessary Arkansas warehouse fire each year to reach the Alpine huts and clean out the chimneys just like the Job performed in the towns and cities far below. Associated press photo town residents flee toxic smoke Berryville. Ark a most of the2.600 residents of this Northwest Arkansas town were evacuated when a fertilizer warehouse fire spread dense toxic smoke across the Community Early sunday. There were no reports of injuries and authorities did not know How Long it would be before residents were allowed to return. Local officials and the National guard sealed off the City with roadblocks Phil Peters of the state health department said the fumes were highly  the fumes were whipped by erratic winds at first Only residents of the North West part of town were asked to leave when the yellow smoke drifted in that direction but the changing winds pushed the smoke Backo or the main part of town. Deputy Frank Hast of the sheriffs office said the fumes came from soldering am Monia and mine acid which were stored and mixed at the Mia Carroll count warehouse. Hasty said the Plant was destroyed in the Blaze which broke out around 3 a m policemen used Public address systems in their patrol cars to awaken residents and Alert them to the situation a Hospital near  also was evacuated. Patients were transferred to a Eureka Springs facility some 10 Miles away and to Harrison More than 30 Miles away. Hospital administrator Rex Burton said ambulances were used in the evacuation. Some 50 residents of a nursing Home were evacuated to Eureka Springs. The air is extremely heavy said Burton. But you can t place a  Carter picks an attorney for acc Post Washington up president Carter will nominate Black attorney Tyrone Brown to fill the 21 months left on the Federal communications commission term vacated by Benjamin Hooks. Brown originally refused to accept nomination to fill the term left by Hooks the first Black person appointed to the seven member commission which regulates . Broadcasting and communications. When Hooks left the acc this summer to become executive director of the National association for the advancement of col ored people he said another Black should succeed him. Blacks Are urging the acc to help increase minority ownership and participation in broadcasting. Brown 34, an attorney who was former general counsel for the Post Newsweek stations was regarded As Hooks Succes Sor. Acc observers referred to the com Mission s Black  but when Carter said earlier in the week he was nominating Charles Ferris counsel to House speaker Thomas tip o Neill. A mass. To succeed Richard Wiley As acc chairman with a full seven year term Brown indicated 21months was not satisfactory. He withdrew his name As a commission candidate. At that time Brown did not Rule out a full seven year term but the White House said the 21 months could not be written off. Friday neither Brown nor a spokesman for White House aide Hamilton Jordan would comment on whether Brown was promised a seven year term after the 21 months expired. Jordan s spokesman said Jordan and Brown met and discussed it further and he Brown notified us he had evaluated it and. If the Job was open he would like to to  burned nightclub was too jammed Cincinnati a an official report on the Beverly Hills Blaze that claimed 164 lives shows that the posh nightclub s Caba ret room was filled to More than twice its Legal capacity the night the fire broke out the Cincinnati enquirer reported sunday. In a copyright article the newspaper said the report by the state fire marshal. Scheduled to be made Public monday by Kentucky gov Julian Carroll notes tha t More than 1,300 persons were in the room on May 28 when fire spread through the club in nearby Southgate a according to fire and safety codes the rooms capacity should have been about 525 persons the newspaper said the report shows the enquirer said the report also concludes there were not enough exits from the room to accommodate More than 525 persons although the Beverly Hills frequently listed Tjie room s capacity at 1,000. The official cause of the fire remains an electrical Short in the club s Zebra room according to the report the enquirer said that was the cause announced a few weeks after the fire. The enquirer said the report notes there is no documentation that 10 violations of fire codes were Ever corrected Aftim they were brought to the attention of Beverly Hills owner Richard Schilling. Former state fire marshal John Cal Vert said 10 violations cited by state officials during the remodelling of the supper club in 1971 were corrected. But the enquirer said the report concludes that Evi Dence at the fire scene showed the violations never were corrected. Carroll was scheduled to make the report Public in testimony before a con Gressional committee hearing on the fire. The report took a Long time to prepare be cause of the complicated nature of the fire he said. Other officials have said it took time Tor interviews with hundreds of patrons and employees and the owners of the club which was destroyed. Lawsuits seeking More than $1 billion in damages have been filed by victims of the fire